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How five designers actually use FigmaApple Pro Display XDR
Apple Pro Display XDR is one of the most popular monitor choices among Workspaces creators, appearing in 28 of 551 creator setups (5%). It skews toward designers, founders and engineers.
28 desks No. 3 of 233 monitors No. 18 in the Top 50
No. 539 Matt D. Smith 
No. 517 Faizur Rehman 
No. 506 Shea Cohen By the numbers
Of the 551 in the archive
Used in 28 of 551 Workspaces
Of 233 monitors
Often on the same desks
Alternatives to Apple Pro Display XDR
All monitors ›The most-used monitor picks in real setups, other than Apple Pro Display XDR.
92 desks · From $1,599
A 27-inch 5K display made for the Mac, with a camera, mics and speakers built in. Compare with Apple Pro Display XDR › LG UltraFine 5K35 desks
A 27-inch 5K display built for the Mac that connects and charges over one Thunderbolt cable. Compare with Apple Pro Display XDR › Dell UltraSharp27 desks
View › LG UltraFine 4K22 desks
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No. 539 Matt D. Smith Designer and the Founder of Shift Nudge 
No. 517 Faizur Rehman Designer, Creator & Solopreneur based in Prague 
No. 506 Shea Cohen Content Creator and Freelance Designer living in Los Angeles 
No. 483 Thiago Costa Designer and Cofounder living in Montreal 
No. 480 Niclas Ernst Designer from Berlin, Germany 
No. 461 Rafael Conde Product Designer living in Amsterdam 
No. 448 Brett Williams Founder of Designjoy, a $1M one-man design agency 
No. 395 Housseynou Fall Product Designer based in New York 
No. 375 Matthew Encina Content Creator, Creative Director, and Educator from Los Angeles, CA 
No. 360 Jonathan Simcoe Designer, Author, and Creative Technologist living in Portland, OR 
No. 342 Oliur UK-based Content Creator, Designer, and Photographer 
No. 307 Adam Elmore Independent Cloud Consultant helping startups build products on AWS 
No. 265 Fatih Arslan Software Engineer at PlanetScale 
No. 249 Andy Cooke Creative Director and Head of Design at BBH London 
No. 241 Pirijan Ketheswaran Designer and engineer trying to make software that makes your day better 
No. 164 Alex Cornell Interface Designer, Filmmaker, and Periodic Musician. 
No. 160 Jason Long Product Designer at PlanetScale. He was previously at GitHub where he worked on Actions. 
No. 135 Joey Banks Senior Product Designer at Twitter, working on Design Systems 
No. 130 Daniel Korpai Product Designer currently working as a Principal Product Designer at Craft 
No. 127 Oliur Designer and Creator based in the UK 
No. 119 Hakim El Hattab Co-founder of Slides.com, a presentation tool for developers & designers 
No. 108 Adam Elmore Host of aws.fm — a live audio show and podcast about AWS 
No. 78 Rafael Conde Co-host of Layout, a weekly podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else 
No. 57 James McDonald Designer at Tailwind 
No. 52 Marc Edwards Founder of Bjango and maker of many great apps 
No. 46 Gabriel Valdivia Leading Consumer Experience Design at Patreon 
No. 42 Matt D. Smith Founder of Shift Nudge and Flowkit and Co-Creator of Contrast for Mac. 
No. 6 Paul Stamatiou Designer at Twitter, living in New York Questions
Is the Apple Pro Display XDR worth it?
Apple Pro Display XDR is one of the most popular monitor choices among Workspaces creators, appearing in 28 of 551 creator setups (5%). It skews toward designers, founders and engineers.
What gear goes well with the Apple Pro Display XDR?
In real Workspaces setups, the Apple Pro Display XDR most often appears alongside the MacBook Pro, Apple Magic Trackpad, and Apple Magic Keyboard. Those make a good starting point if you're building around it.
What are the best alternatives to the Apple Pro Display XDR?
The most-used monitor alternatives among Workspaces creators are the Apple Studio Display (92 setups), the LG UltraFine 5K (35 setups), and the Dell UltraSharp (27 setups).
How many creators use the Apple Pro Display XDR?
The Apple Pro Display XDR appears in 28 of 551 Workspaces creator setups (5%), making it the #3 most-used monitor in the database.
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